Again it’s been quite a while since I’ve updated. Things have been very busy here, between finishing work, applying for a visa, and studying Japanese hard (Heisig count is now just shy of 1600), I’ve not had a great deal of time to update this blog.
Good news however, not only have I got my visa and flights sorted, I’ve also got interviews for a couple of games companies over there. So things aren’t quite as scary as they were a couple of months ago (and good timing too, I’d kind of resigned myself to teaching English at least to start with).

In other, non personal news, the trend for big Japanese publishers looking beyond Japan’s borders for development continues. Konami recently announced at E3 that the newest Castlevania will be developed by a Madrid based developer, Mercury Steam. Mercury Steam have some previous experience with Action/Survival Horror game Clive Barkers Jericho (and presumably looking at in game footage, a fairly snazzy engine, or maybe the Half Life 2 Engine). I wonder if Cliver Barker will get involved in the Castlevania project? That’d certainly be an interesting (and quite Western) influence on the series…

The video certainly promises much with a massive orchestral, and occasionally Baroque soundtrack (certainly quite different from the 80’s Power Metal/weedley weedley MIDI guitar solo strewn music usually associated with the series), massive Shadows of the Collosus style boss encounters and whip-led Devil May Cry looking gameplay. Time will tell if Kojima and Mercury Steam do the newest game in the series justice.

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